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00:22The Countess is here to see you, Mrs Hart.
00:25Mummy, what a dreadful week for you.
00:28I just can't bear it.
00:30I said to the florist, your absolute best bouquet, though no roses.
00:33And the girl knew immediately they must be for you.
00:35How about that?
00:36Oh, those wretched papers.
00:38I was so pleased when you suggested lunch.
00:40Are you surviving?
00:41When have you known me not to?
00:43Hello, darling.
00:44I put Patsy's for 1.30.
00:45Will that do?
00:46Janet, I swear she saw Sinatra there only last Tuesday.
00:48My favourite thing to say is that she's done it all for her family,
00:50which is ludicrous, of course,
00:52for a woman who's spent every moment of her adult life avoiding her family
00:56and making grand speeches about bloody revenge.
00:59She's pathetic.
01:01There's a downside, of course,
01:03to making certain one's children never want for anything at all.
01:07And that's being forced to watch them stroll through life,
01:11taking everything in their path for granted.
01:13Mummy, I'm so sorry.
01:14What would you like to explain first, my love?
01:17Your detailed expose to the press of my confidential medical records?
01:21Or your use, too, Mr. Fairley, of the word harridan?
01:26I can explain.
01:27Well, I'd love to hear it, darling.
01:31Truly, I'd love to understand.
01:34Because everything I've ever done has been for my family.
01:54Oh, no!
01:56Oh, no!
02:09Time sheets, Mr. Fowler.
02:11Thanks.
02:13It is all, well, at home.
02:21What about it?
02:22I know some of the staff at the hall were wondering if Emma might have been in touch with any
02:27news.
02:28Around now.
02:33It's been months since we took her.
02:36It's been six months.
02:39Six and a half.
02:44She sends money every month.
02:47Post-mort leads.
02:48She's got a good head on her shoulders, Mr. Fowler.
02:51She gets on weight.
02:53No address, no news.
02:55No one is to worry.
02:57Anyway, it's all congratulations are in order for your engagement.
03:04Have a later shift to keep awake.
03:13All right.
03:13No.
03:13No.
03:35All right.
03:37Now, Mrs. Fairweather, I've been up all night finishing this dress just for you.
03:43So I believe this will be exactly what you're after.
03:45Where do you find the time, Mrs. Hart? In your condition?
03:48There's a name for Mrs. Hart's condition. Tireless.
03:51The fact is, Mrs. Hart, I'm also in the family way.
03:54Congratulations, Mrs. Fairweather.
03:56Perhaps I could make you a skirt like mine with a drawstring waist.
03:58See? Wraps around my front like so.
04:00Come and see me and I'll get you measured up. See you soon.
04:08I've never had a shop assistant bring as much costume as you.
04:11It's all adding up. Three quarters for you, Mr. Lowther.
04:16And a quarter for her.
04:18Your plan? With a capital P?
04:20Capital B for baby.
04:23I'm saving.
04:24Well, you're not saving energy.
04:25I'll sit down when the baby's born.
04:27That's how it works when you're a mother, isn't it?
04:29You do nothing but rest.
04:31Well, I'm not sure that is how it works.
04:33Mrs. Barlow, I was hoping you'd be in.
04:34You're going to love this.
05:02Thank God.
05:08All safe and sound in there.
05:12I'm going to keep you that way.
05:55Oh, my God.
05:56Oh, my God.
05:57Oh, my God.
06:15All right in there.
06:16I'm having a little play.
06:28Walk along.
06:32Not slapping up, I hope, Mrs. Hart?
06:35Lunch.
06:35Don't worry, though.
06:36I've not stopped working.
06:37I can forbid.
06:45Closing for the jail already?
06:46Closing for the jail already?
06:47She's never opened.
06:52I think you'll be very pleased with what I've got for you today.
06:56The new silks are perfect.
06:58And to you, only three and six a yard.
07:01Shame I'm only paying you two and six, then.
07:03Three shillings.
07:04Two and nine.
07:12Are those pin marks on those fingers?
07:14Mrs. Hart, how long have you been working for Joel Elder?
07:16Six months, is it?
07:17And every minute of that, you've worked like a dog.
07:19People love to tell me to slow down, but babies don't write ahead and make appointments.
07:23And I am running out of time.
07:25The money's not coming in quick enough.
07:28Does your husband mind you working so hard?
07:31He's working too.
07:32I've told you, the Navy can't spare him.
07:35Well, he's missing out, is all I'd say.
07:39I expect you'll miss him too, being away from home.
07:42I miss my dad and my brother.
07:45No time to miss anyone else.
07:47Anyway, I'm saving up so when the baby's born, I can have two months off.
07:50Maybe even three, if I work hard in these last few weeks.
07:53It's looking like another record-breaking day.
07:57Team work, Mr. Lowther?
07:59I don't think so.
08:00When I watch you selling, you don't have a mind like a woman's at all.
08:05Yours is more like a man's.
08:07Is there a difference?
08:10You're living here now, are you?
08:11I've got work to do.
08:16Is this the new cloth?
08:17Looks pricey.
08:18It was supposed to be.
08:20It's to replace the fairly stuff, Mr. Lowther.
08:22The fact is, customers can spot it.
08:24Cloth from the fairly mill is just bad quality.
08:26Rotten, some might say.
08:31We've lost another cloth, Aldrin.
08:33More complaints about the quality.
08:36A lot of that equipment is old and tired.
08:39And we can't keep asking the men to work around the clock.
08:42Your usual grabers who don't pay the plebs enough money.
08:44Now we're offering night-time hours, suddenly they have to be home for their tea.
08:47They're not plebs.
08:48They're people.
08:49We have rights and feelings.
08:53Priya!
08:54You're back!
08:57Sorry.
08:59Long day.
09:01You must be tired.
09:06Edwin, Priya and I were hoping that tomorrow we might get down to the real business of the week.
09:10Wedding planning.
09:12We should talk about churches, certainly.
09:16It's summer's date.
09:17I was hoping we might decide on a date at least while I'm here.
09:21Because your father's a busy man.
09:22Silvery Grum needs to make plans.
09:27So, we must get every wedding detail fixed, mustn't we, Edwin?
09:32He's preoccupied at work.
09:34Hmm.
09:35Good old Edwin.
09:36Doing all he can to save the business.
09:38Hmm.
09:49Good old Samson.
09:54Bye.
10:15Do the hell do you think you are?
10:18You should be ashamed of yourself.
10:19You don't just stroll in here.
10:21For months you can come near it.
10:22Well, sure, I'm here now when I...
10:24Can you see she's been busy?
10:29My poor name.
10:31What the hell have you been playing at?
10:32Mr R, you should know that your wife has been working tirelessly.
10:36Every minute.
10:39In the absence of anyone else bothering to...
10:40Mr Kalinsky, David.
10:42This is not my husband.
10:44This is just a friend.
10:45A dear friend.
10:47Mac.
10:48You barely know who's my husband.
10:49Oh, you'd be surprised by how little...
10:53Well, I had no idea.
10:55I'll see you at closing time.
10:57After.
10:58See you soon.
11:07Adel?
11:09Brought you these.
11:12I was looking for a vase like Mother's, you know, that allowed the flowers to splay out.
11:17Do you remember?
11:18She always had such a way with flowers.
11:22Edwin rushed off early again.
11:25But work never stops at the mill.
11:27Not these days.
11:28I mean, Adam's barely home.
11:31I mean, you know, I hardly ever see him.
11:34He's barely here.
11:36Do you need more hot water, darling?
11:39Or anything, you know, anything to eat?
11:47Darling.
11:47Darling.
11:50I wonder if maybe you ought to get out.
11:55Do you think?
11:57Just get away from this place.
12:03I was wondering about Aunt Jessie's cottage by the sea.
12:07Would you like that?
12:08Remember that little beach down below and the gulls?
12:12And she'd love to have you.
12:13I know she would.
12:13Yeah, and you may just find that.
12:21Adele?
12:24Adele?
12:32Adele, please.
12:40Are those lily of the valley?
12:44Yes.
12:47Curious, aren't they?
12:48There's hundreds of them out there.
12:50They do that.
12:53They're invasive.
12:54If left unchecked.
12:57Lily of the valley will simply take over the whole garden.
13:01You can't get rid of them.
13:13Well, find that bars.
13:19I'll find that bars.
13:34Oh, sorry.
13:35We're...
13:36Closed.
13:37Your guard dog not with you, no?
13:39Mr. Kalinsky just does the deliveries.
13:41He's only being kind.
13:42Oh, kind, is he?
13:44As well as handsome.
13:50Like you were born to work here.
13:59Emma Hart?
14:01Are you going to avoid looking at me for the whole rest of your life?
14:05What's going on, darling?
14:16Dad doesn't know I'm here.
14:19And he mustn't.
14:21I can't take trouble to his door.
14:25Not after, ma'am.
14:28I haven't seen him.
14:31I haven't seen him, I think.
14:33How can I afford to bring up this baby by myself?
14:39Fine.
14:44How the hell have you got yourself in this all, miss?
15:00It was a lad back home.
15:03You don't know him.
15:05He let me down.
15:07Then I'll thrash the living day, lads, all of them.
15:09No need.
15:11He said he'd marry me at first and run away to join the Navy.
15:18And this?
15:21So nobody thinks bad of me?
15:25And also because I like remembering.
15:27Remembering him?
15:28Remembering I won't ever again let someone make me feel the way he did.
15:33Not till the day I die.
15:36And remembering what drives me now.
15:38What will drive me my whole life.
15:42Revenge.
15:47Emma, how are you going to look after the baby and work?
15:52I'm making dresses.
15:54And I'm good.
15:56I am.
15:57I get such a thrill to see the money pile up.
16:00I've saved up for two months, which means that when the baby's born, I can stop a while.
16:09Did you drop something?
16:10You know I'll marry you.
16:13Emma Hart.
16:14And happily.
16:17It'd be an honour.
16:20Emma, will you marry me?
16:25You're the best man I know.
16:28Sure, to marry you would be a privilege.
16:30A burden, more like.
16:31Have you seen these shoulders?
16:33I could look after the both of you.
16:36I know.
16:38I know you would.
16:41But I've got it planned.
16:43I'm going to look after us myself.
16:46Somehow.
16:47I'm going to be a mother, Mac.
16:49A mum.
16:50I'm going to have a real baby.
16:52Most precious thing you can have.
16:54And more than anything I've ever done, I want to take care of it.
16:58Well, I could have at least an eye.
17:00Mac.
17:00Mac, you have the biggest heart I know.
17:05It's bursting.
17:07Which is why I want you to be able to give that heart to someone you love.
17:09For real.
17:11Not just a girl you feel sorry for.
17:13Ah, Emma, but...
17:14The answer's no.
17:16It's a no with the biggest thank you in the world.
17:29You might want to get under that seat with the sweeping brush, the dust is shocking.
17:45Good morning.
17:48Good morning.
17:50Good morning.
18:18Let me rent next door.
18:20Let me rent it from you and open a dress shop.
18:22My own shop filled with dresses made by me.
18:24Give me one reason why not.
18:26Oh, you only want one.
18:27Well, which reason do you want?
18:29That you've no experience running a shop.
18:32That you've no experience running a business of any kind.
18:34That you're barely 19.
18:36You're pregnant.
18:37Mr. Lowther, the answer to all of them is the same.
18:39I can do it.
18:40Mrs. Hart, that's fanciful at best.
18:42Two people are filled in that shop this year.
18:44Two inefficient people?
18:45Mrs. Cleveland, her stock was shoddy and too expensive for its quality.
18:48She didn't know her customers.
18:50I do.
18:50I know what kind of clothes they like.
18:52And I'm good.
18:53You know I am.
18:54And you said it yourself.
18:55I'm a grafter.
18:56I can sell.
18:57Which is why I can't afford to lose you from my shop.
18:59You wouldn't be losing me.
19:00We'll drive business to each other.
19:02Right now, when people come in, all they see is rolls of cloth.
19:04With my dress shop next door, you'll have a showroom for what that cloth can become.
19:08Double your profits in a month.
19:10Treble them, probably.
19:11Plus, I'll be your best customer.
19:12Every dress that I sell, I'll be buying the cloth from you.
19:15And the shop's empty, Mr. Lowther.
19:16Gathering dust.
19:18I can take it off your hands today.
19:20Now.
19:20This minute.
19:21So you don't lose a moment's rent.
19:22Mrs. Hart, you forget I know your circumstances.
19:25You live in my upstairs room.
19:27The deposit on that shop is sky high.
19:41I have enough in here for your deposit.
19:44And because I know you're nervous about me, which you won't be the moment you see the profits I bring
19:47in.
19:48I know you usually ask for four weeks' rent in advance.
19:51But I have enough in here for eight.
19:54It's all in here.
19:57Take it.
19:58Mrs. Hart.
20:00But I need to remind you.
20:02You're having a baby.
20:04That's a need to take care of.
20:06And it's why I'm absolutely certain that this is right.
21:15Oh, I'm sorry.
21:16No, it's fine. I was just...
21:17I was just walking home.
21:18You're allowed to walk where you like.
21:23Nice aim. You got there?
21:24I've sat through three days now of your aunt talking about bridal bouquets
21:28and of you and your father shouting at each other about looms.
21:30Yes. I had some steam to let off.
21:39Oh!
21:41Okay, let's see.
21:44Not bad, not bad.
21:45Not bad.
21:48Terrible.
21:50Dreadful.
21:52Well, they'll be wondering about dinner.
21:55Yes.
21:59You know, when you asked me to marry you,
22:01I thought we had a connection.
22:04That you were optimistic, like me.
22:07You seemed starry-eyed.
22:10And I wasn't sure if we made each other's hearts soar.
22:12Not in the way people talk about hearts soaring in books.
22:15You probably don't read those kind of books.
22:18Not really.
22:20But you know the concept of hearts soaring?
22:25Yes.
22:26Anyway, I just wanted to say...
22:29Not everyone gets that.
22:30The hearts soaring.
22:32That's not what life is, I don't think.
22:35But recently,
22:37the stars have left those eyes of yours and...
22:39I know this engagement pleases your father
22:42and he's not an easy man to please, but...
22:46that we could just walk away.
22:52There's a lot to be said for pleasing people.
22:56And not just parents.
22:59Priya,
23:01I wouldn't have asked you.
23:04I wouldn't have considered it if I had intended...
23:09somehow...
23:10to do my very best to please you.
23:15Well, let me know, will you?
23:18When the trying to please me starts.
23:43Mother,
23:45how are you?
23:48I suppose I...
23:50wanted to see you.
23:53If you don't mind.
24:06Because everything just feels a bit...
24:09wrong somehow.
24:12Priya's a sweet girl in many ways.
24:14Where is your father?
24:16Father?
24:18He never comes to me.
24:20Your father never comes anywhere near me.
24:22Where is he?
24:25He's not back yet.
24:27I don't know.
24:28He's been busy at the mill.
24:29But does he not know that I'm here, Edwin?
24:33And I'm not nobody.
24:37I'm not nobody.
24:38I'm not nobody.
24:42But think you were handsome.
24:51Stop it!
24:54Get out!
24:57I'm sorry.
24:58I'm sorry.
24:59I'm sorry.
25:01I'm sorry.
25:02I'm sorry.
25:11I'm sorry.
25:13I'm sorry.
25:14I'm sorry.
25:41Shelves here, rails of dresses here and here.
25:45And a fitting area here and also a range of elasticated skirts for pregnant women and a chair for them
25:50but also for people like you.
25:53Menfolk.
25:55And there will be a fire, the shop will always be warm.
25:57And you'll pay to heat it will you?
25:59Yes, and it will be worth it because people will want to come and every customer will be greeted by
26:03name.
26:03And Emma, in a few weeks time, the baby.
26:09I'll manage.
26:19I'll manage.
26:25I'll manage.
26:30I'll manage.
26:44I'll manage.
26:46I'll manage.
26:49Fire!
26:51Fire!
26:52No, no, no, no!
27:24No, no, no, no, no!
27:53No, no, no, no!
28:28No, no, no, no!
28:55No, no, no, no!
29:10No, no, no!
29:40No, no, no, no!
29:48No, no, no, no, no!
30:18No, no, no, no!
30:45No, no, no!
30:58No, no, no, no, no!
31:27No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
31:59No, no, no, no, no!
32:16No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
32:46No, no, no!
33:10No, no, no, no, no!
33:16No, no, no, no, no!
33:49No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
34:13no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
34:13Oh, my God.
34:45Do you mind, darling?
34:50Stay, Olivia.
34:52Please.
35:00I will stay in this house while my son needs me.
35:03Then, the moment Edwin's well, I need to be too.
35:08I need to leave.
35:22My darling, I've not been the mother you deserve.
35:30And I'm so sorry.
35:33But I promise I will put this right.
35:38I promise you.
35:53It's all right.
35:54I'm coming.
35:56I just need...
35:58I'm coming.
36:25I'm coming.
36:27Stop!
36:29Stop!
36:31Stop!
36:33Come on!
37:07You're my baby girl.
37:11Yes, you are.
37:13And Edwina, you are so loved.
37:16So loved.
37:18And I won't let anything happen to you.
37:22I'll take care of you.
37:26And you will have
37:27the best of everything.
37:30I promise you.
37:33You know, not as fairly's
37:35turned their back on us.
37:37Because they think they're better than us, that's what they think.
37:41And if it takes my whole life,
37:43all of my energy and everything I've got
37:45I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
37:51I will keep you safe.
37:56And if I have to make sacrifices,
37:58give a few things up,
37:59then I will do.
38:01If it means you're taken care of,
38:03I'll sacrifice anything in the world,
38:05I will.
38:07No.
38:16No.
38:26No.
38:29No.
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40:42No.
40:42No.
40:42of this for this child. I don't know about him, but I just hope Irina knows. Will you
40:47please just go? Just go, please.
41:37I don't know.
41:42All for me? All of this has been for your family? Well, I'm sorry to tell you, Mummy, but it's
41:49felt an awful lot from where I've been sitting, as though you've done it all for you. And
41:53where have you been sitting, Edwina? On which cushioned seats, on which velvet chaise long,
41:59and at which polished table have you spent your entire life sitting? Would we have starved
42:04to death, do you think? If you'd worked less and been at home more, or would we have eaten
42:08just less costly brie? I am struggling not to feel ashamed. If you have ever been in any
42:23doubt that I love you, Edwina, with all my heart... All of it. Or is there just a little bit
42:30of
42:31that heart that resents me? Resents all of us for not being you? Oh, we can't compete
42:36on the suffering front, of course. Dry bread, holes in your shoes, and if only your mother
42:41could have afforded a paracetamol or two, she might have lived!
42:46And there it is. Now I feel ashamed. I'm not your only rebel child, but because I'm the
42:55first born, the first palmed off on a relative, the first lied to about her father.
43:03So what's next in your bold new world of skullduggery and initiative, Edwina?
43:08Well, I shall call my anarchic siblings. To tell them you fumbled it? No. To tell them
43:14that the plan may no longer be secret, that nothing has changed. You continue. And then
43:22who will you have, Will? I shall have Paula.
43:45Paula?
44:01Is that you, Fairley?
44:03Yes, Mrs. Hart.
44:03He came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of his magazine.